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America Rejects Cameron Diaz’s Box

By Evil Beet Gossip • on November 9, 2009

There were a couple of surprises at the box office this weekend. Jim Carrey’s A Christmas Carol delivered on the low end of expectations, pulling in $31M. Michael Jackson’s This Is It is still pulling in big bucks even though “It” wasn’t the two-week limited engagement that it was originally hyped as.

The Men Who Stare at Goats premiered in third place, despite trailer commercials running every twenty minutes for the past two weeks. Precious — an Oprah Winfrey Production — also premiered this weekend and you’ll see that it’s nowhere on the list of top ten flicks. It only played in limited release, 18 theaters, and pulled in $1.8M. That is, like, huge — $100,000 in revenue per theater versus $8,418 per theater for this week’s number one movie. I had no idea that the Oprah followers were still so plentiful.

Lastly, the premiere of Cameron Diaz’s The Box tanked once everyone realized it wasn’t a badly named porn flick.

1. “A Christmas Carol,” $31 million.

2. “Michael Jackson’s This Is It,” $14 million.

3. “The Men Who Stare at Goats,” $13.3 million.

4. “The Fourth Kind,” $12.5 million.

5. “Paranormal Activity,” $8.6 million.

6. “The Box,” $7.9 million.

7. “Couples Retreat,” $6.4 million.

8. “Law Abiding Citizen,” $6.2 million.

9. “Where the Wild Things Are,” $4.2 million.

10. “Astro Boy,” $2.6 million.